How I Can Help

Integrative therapy, psychotherapeutic counselling, and hypnotherapy for individuals and couples

Hello, I’m Francesca, an integrative therapist, psychotherapeutic counsellor, and hypnotherapist. I provide a non-judgmental space for exploration, healing, and transformation. I offer online therapy and counselling for individuals and couples.

I support my clients in resolving relationship difficulties. This includes helping my clients explore their attachment patterns, including anxious attachment. I also offer a space to explore sexual issues, including sexual shame.

I help my clients resolve a range of often related issues, including anxiety, depression, low self-confidence, loneliness, anger, and sleep problems.

For those who have experienced childhood abuse and neglect or other forms of developmental trauma, I provide a safe and supportive environment to process and heal from these challenging experiences.

Additionally, I offer support in processing and integrating psychedelic experiences and non-ordinary states of consciousness.

What I offer

My approach is integrative and person-centred, tailored specifically to help you progress toward what matters most in your life. As an integrative therapist, I draw from diverse therapeutic frameworks and evidence-based techniques, carefully selecting methods that resonate with your unique needs and goals. This comprehensive approach allows me to adapt our work together as your journey evolves, ensuring you receive the most effective support at every stage of your personal growth.

• Psychotherapeutic counselling is a talking therapy that supports you in discovering new ways to resolve emotional issues and overcome life’s challenges. It emphasises the in-depth therapeutic relationship jointly created by the therapist and the client. Hypno-psychotherapeutic counselling uses hypnotherapy within the therapeutic process.

• Couples therapy is a collaborative process in which partners work together with a qualified therapist to explore their relationship dynamics, improve communication, resolve conflicts, and develop deeper understanding and connection in a safe, supportive environment.

• Hypnotherapy uses hypnosis and talk therapy to discover the underlying causes of issues and symptoms. Then, with the support of a therapist, these issues and symptoms can be explored and resolved.

For some of my clients, this is their first time opening up to someone. In other cases, clients may have experience with talk therapy but may feel they are going in circles, talking about things without seeing real change. In this case, hypnotherapy or integrative methods can help with deeper healing and resolution.

Challenges I can help you with include:

• Exploring and resolving relationship issues and difficulties

• Exploring attachment issues, including anxious, avoidant, and disorganised patterns of relating to others — these are sometimes called ‘commitment issues’ or ‘abandonment issues’

• Processing developmental trauma, including healing from childhood abuse and neglect

• Resolving sexual issues, including sexual shame, and sexual difficulties including vaginismus and vulvodynia

• Managing stress and overcoming anxiety

• Improving emotional regulation and resolving issues, including anger and jealousy

• Overcoming feelings of isolation or loneliness

• Treating forms of depression, including major depression

• Overcoming low self-confidence and low self-esteem

• Resolving sleep problems, including insomnia, nightmares, and sleep anxiety

• Processing and integrating psychedelic experiences and non-ordinary states of consciousness

Frequently asked questions

How do the sessions work?

• Each session is tailored to your needs and may include a combination of talk therapy, psychotherapeutic counselling, and hypnotherapy. We will discuss this during our work together.

I would like to try hypnotherapy, but what if I can’t be hypnotised?

• If you are open to the process, it will be possible for you to be hypnotised. Although different people have different levels of suggestibility, all people are able to move into a relaxed state of consciousness. It is common to be sceptical, and this can be discussed in our session.

How much does it cost?

• Session fees can be viewed here.

Where do you see clients?

• My practice is primarily online, with some limited in-person availability. Online sessions are held over Zoom. In-person sessions take place at my practice room in Bristol, UK.

Beginning therapy

Studies show that therapy is most effective when clients commit to consistent sessions. When you are ready to begin therapy, sessions typically happen weekly at a set time that works for both of us.

I most frequently work with clients on a long-term, open-ended basis. Short-term therapy may be the right approach if you are looking for support during a period of difficulty or would like to focus on a specific issue. Medium- or long-term therapy is more exploratory and can help you create meaningful change across multiple dimensions of your life.

I offer a free 20-minute phone or Zoom consultation to explore if we are a good fit.

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